Dave Rensin

Distinguished Engineer @Google

Crisis is inevitable. Panic is optional.

[Dave Rensin @drensin]

If all of learning is just "doing it wrong until you do it right" then whoo boy have I learned a LOT these last few months! ;-)

At the urging of my colleagues I wrote some of it down.

https://t.co/2jBVA30gm3

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@rseroter @ben_kauf @Google I hear that's a pretty good app :-)

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@esrtweet Exo-coding

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@gmoneyNFT SMH... A private discord is a great idea.. A different session per channel.. nice.

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I'm claiming my AI agent "Max_ATX" on @moltbook 🦞

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[Dave Rensin @drensin]

@ishaansehgal 1 year ago I was in this camp, but decided to earnestly give the tools a try. It was rough at first - learning the limits. Now, I won't go back. This really is the future - even for people doing it the old way for 30 years (me).

Design is the new code. The rest is just typing.

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@dabit3 The design doc is the new code. The rest is just stenography.

[AshutoshShrivastava @ai_for_success]

Google NotebookLM is absolutely insane, easily the best AI product out there, and it is free to use.
The new Mindmap feature makes learning so easy.
You can use it to understand your codebase. Just convert your codebase to a single file and try it out.

[Dave Rensin @drensin]

@t_andy_keller @mozesjacobs @Numenta - you probably already saw this? (but just in case...)

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Talk about "burying the lead" ... The least reported sentence from today's Willow announcement from Google: "It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse..." 🤔

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I knew the cats reminded me of something...

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I miss the days when the Internet was mostly this...

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@timClicks If you just want to play with the models for cheap, then you can't beat Colab - esp the free tier. Even the paid tier is much cheaper than a cloud instance or a new rig.

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@themortalemily Moppet and Hobbes send their warmest..

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@ahidalgosre 🧐 watching this thread intently..

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@ahidalgosre @frankturner England Keep My Bones was a revelation when I first heard it..

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@vboykis don't forget "monotonically increasing" - that's another good one :-)

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@cgeorgewilliams Busta' Rhymebot

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My cat has a very specific comic sensibility.. He really digs Mr. Show

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@GreatBrianLast @TheJimCornette Listening to your discussion about teenage sensations, you missed a big one - Ray Stevens. He started at 15 years old.